Antiques Quote by Haruki Murakami

A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.

— Susan Glaspell

Lapse Of Time Uncovers Hidden Secrets

— Ismail

What a dead thing is a clock, with its ponderous embowelments of lead and brass, its pert or solemn dullness of communication, compared with…

— Charles Lamb

“What a pity clocks don't realize the interesting work they do in making history, as they go on ticking out moments which never before…

— Alice Muriel Williamson

The world is a clock winding down.

— Rick Yancey

The huge round lunar clock was a gristmill. Shake down all the grains of Time—the big grains of centuries, and the small grains of…

— Ray Bradbury

“For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might interfere with…

— Tennessee Williams

“Household objects lost meaning. A bedside clock became a hunk of molded plastic, telling something called time, in a world marking its passage for…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Take now the clockworks... The clockworks, being genuine and not much to look at, don't generate the drama of an Earth-tilt or a flying…

— Tom Robbins

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

— Susan Glaspell

CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time…

— Ambrose Bierce

“There is no universal clock, but local histories take form beneath our eyes, and begin to regulate themselves, and haltingly are linked to one…

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty